Truthwatcher skills turn symptoms into evidence and evidence into action. Use them when the team needs to know what is real before it decides what to change.
Available skills
root-cause-vision.md — build an evidence-backed path from symptom to likely cause.
telemetry-weave.md — add logs, metrics, and traces that answer specific debugging or operating questions.
Usage contract
Write the symptom in falsifiable terms before doing anything else.
Add instrumentation only when it informs a decision or reduces the fault domain.
Separate observed facts from hypotheses and confidence levels.
Escalate to Stoneward when the evidence points to a load-bearing reliability or performance issue.
1---2name: skills-103description: Truthwatcher Skills4---5# Truthwatcher Skills67Truthwatcher skills turn symptoms into evidence and evidence into action. Use them when the team needs to know what is real before it decides what to change.89## Available skills1011- [`root-cause-vision.md`](./root-cause-vision.md) — build an evidence-backed path from symptom to likely cause.12- [`telemetry-weave.md`](./telemetry-weave.md) — add logs, metrics, and traces that answer specific debugging or operating questions.1314## Usage contract15161. Write the symptom in falsifiable terms before doing anything else.172. Add instrumentation only when it informs a decision or reduces the fault domain.183. Separate observed facts from hypotheses and confidence levels.194. Escalate to Stoneward when the evidence points to a load-bearing reliability or performance issue.
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